December 16th, 2020 – 812

~ Sam Shuttleworth

Slept on the brackets idea and to be honest it could be a nice reprive for the closing month of TWO 1.0, so no promises but it’s looking plausible if nothing else. I switched 6 and 35 for more interesting match ups and so my final results matched what I feel is an accurate representation of my favourite games. It’ll be fun to pick apart why I love them and to see what I can learn for my stories.

A chapter and a half from the midpoint now and the book is roughly 41,000 words. That’ll make the midpoint 44,000 words, and a final wordcount of 88,000 for the first draft. I’m pretty chuffed with that, more or less spot on with my original intention without feeling like I had to pad anything. The next chapter is going to be, tough. But I’ve been psyching myself up for it now for years so no time like the present. Still, glad I’ll be writing most of it on the Christmas break.

Published by Sam Shuttleworth

I’m Sam, and I live to write. I spent most of the first 8 years of my adulthood trying to balance writing with a large amount of crap in my personal life, until towards the end of 2018 I threw everything out and started afresh with just my writing. I built the new me around one goal: I have to write at least 1,000 words a day. I called this goal 1K, and it changed my life. So long as I write a thousand words a day, the day is a success, and atop that I've managed over time to build the life I wanted all those years. My greatest flaws as a writer is I still use too many adjectives, adverbs, connectives as openers, accidental passive voice and I don't force my work down people's throats enough on pain of extreme and unusual torture. My greatest strength is I know my greatest flaws and I'm working on them.